No. S 71
Income Tax Act
(CHAPTER 134)
Income Tax
(Singapore — India)
(Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement)
Order 2017
WHEREAS it is provided by section 49 of the Income Tax Act that if the Minister by order declares that arrangements specified in the order have been made with the government of any country outside Singapore with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to tax under the Act and any tax of a similar character imposed by the laws of that country, and that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect, the arrangements have effect in relation to tax under the Act notwithstanding anything in any written law:
AND WHEREAS by an Agreement dated 24 January 1994, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Republic of India, arrangements were made, amongst other things, for the avoidance of double taxation:
AND WHEREAS by a Protocol dated 29 June 2005, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Republic of India, the arrangements set out in the said Agreement were modified as prescribed in the said Protocol:
AND WHEREAS by a Second Protocol dated 24 June 2011, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Republic of India, the arrangements set out in the said Agreement were modified as prescribed in the said Second Protocol:
AND WHEREAS by a Third Protocol dated 30 December 2016, between the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the Government of the Republic of India, the arrangements set out in the said Agreement were modified as prescribed in the said Third Protocol:
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby declared by the Minister for Finance —
(a)that the arrangements, as modified by the said Third Protocol specified in the Schedule to this Order, have been made with the Government of the Republic of India; and
(b)that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect notwithstanding anything in any written law.
Made on 22 February 2017.
LIM SOO HOON
Permanent Secretary
(Finance) (Performance),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.
[MOF R032.002.0016.V18; AG/LEGIS/SL/134/2015/3 Vol. 2]